Thomas Wagenaar
Autonomy Applications Engineer
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Wagenaar is an Autonomy Applications Engineer with 11 years of experience building guidance, navigation, and control systems for unmanned aircraft and robotics. He has designed and flight-tested advanced autonomy features—such as formation flight, target interception, and missile avoidance—and transitioned reinforcement learning pipelines and clustering tools from research to flight tests. At Shield AI he develops customer-facing autonomy applications and trains teams on the Hivemind autonomy kit, blending product delivery with technical enablement. His background spans academia and industry, including publishing a patent-pending formation flight system and applying deep RL to medical-robot control while lecturing on machine learning. An active open-source contributor, he has worked on neuro-evolution tooling for browser and Node.js environments, reflecting a practical interest in genetic algorithms and fast ML implementations. Based in Utrecht, he combines aerospace MSc training with hands-on engineering to turn complex guidance and optimisation research into operational autonomous systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Applied Physics with Honors, BSc, Applied Physics with Honors at Eindhoven University of TechnologyMSc, Aerospace engineering, MSc, Aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
genetic-algorithm10
cordova10
neural-network10
save10
artificial-intelligence9
canvas9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
html9
nodejs6
ionic-framework6
tensorflow6
python6
webpack6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wagenaartje/neataptic
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
:rocket: Blazing fast neuro-evolution & backpropagation for the browser and Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 451 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the `neataptic` repository by implementing functionality related to crossover additions in the `layer.js` and `neuron.js` files. They also initiated the development of an evolution object, working with the `genetics.js` and `evolution.js` files, indicating a focus on genetic algorithms. Furthermore, the user made a "prober build" and made updates to website, specifically the js and html files and the generation counter.
evolutionblazingbrowserbackpropagationnode-js
neural-fit/neuralfit
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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